The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1887-01-14
Southern Dakota Statehood.

The state executive com mittee is send.
ing out circulars to it's county committee.
men saying:
We desire, after a preliminary canvass,
state areas we believe to be a iact-sup.
porting the cause OF division and state
hood to submit at as early q day rs pos
sible the question OF the early operation
OF the state government. While the con.
stitutio nal convention in Huron expunged
the thirty second section OF the ordinance
and schedule, it is not the purpose OF the
executive or OF this committee to take such
step until they have the sanction
OF the people, in which event it
confidently believes we shall be
successful in the effort, ii made. We do
not for an instant believe that any pre-
tense will be made by the United States oi
the right to disperse the government, if we
can show it to be founded on the expressed
will OF our 100000 people. Upon this
pro position we propose to move forward
to erect our own government according to
our own desires and necessities, subject on.
ly to the laws OF the United States and the
federal constitutions.
The committee is also sending out circ,i.
lars to ascertain the attitude OF all the
papers in the state upon the question. to.
gether with their political affiliations.
Engineers are surveying a line for
the Manitoba from Watertown to
Huron.
The gambling apparatus confscated
by Judge Church in Brown county was
chopped up, ,and what was suitablefor
klndllng purposes was distributed
among the poor.
Charles Martin was frozen to death
Christmas night while going from Bis.
marck to Menoken. He was drunk.
The commission OF the receiver at
Deadwood, expired on the 10Th INST,
and his successor will be nominated
very soon after the assembling of con,
gress.
Gettysburg pays $3.50 month fol-
water which is drawn into the town
from distance.
The United States court will con.
vene at Deadwood Jan. %.
A delegation from Pierre waited up.
Oh Bishop Marty at Yankton with
the request for the removal from
Pierre of q priest who is intoxicating
doctrines prejudicial to the eprosperity
of various gambling gaines in chat
city.
New Dakota postmasters: Eric o
| Eneesthather, Baconsville, Nelson
county, vice Jas. German resigned
Robt, Mathews, Little Muddy, Bufor6
county, vice Gates removed; Thos. S
Smith, Ludden, Dickey county, vic,
Ogden Lowell removed; Jas. j. Angers
Grand View, Douglas county, vic,
Frank Tabin resigned.
Mrs. Curl Rodning of Northwoot
was adjudged insane by the board o
insanity commissioners at Crane
Forks. The woman is forty years o
age and has four children. She cam,
to this country with her husband ter
years ago, and grief at leaving he
home is thought to have been tn,
cause OF her derangement. She wnl
| sent to the asylum at Jamestown.
it is rumored that Marshal Marattt
will be appointed territorial auditor
! by Gov. Church.
| Rev. l. A. Stanton, OF the Congre
gational church, Plankinton, anc
Miss Laura Wright. and William
Sweitzer OF Chippewa Falls, Wis, ant
Miss Ida Priest, both brides of Mitch
ell, were married on the goth ult.
George Griffin has taken editoria
charge OF the Plankington Free Press
succeeding J. N. Ault, publisher of tn,
] Farmers Mutual journal. Il. d
Kanouse, epresentative-elect to con
gress from the estate of Dakota ha.
| bought the Woonsocket Times.